Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with another Butterfly Carousel Box Card (an original design) made with the gorgeous, large Vanessa Butterfly Dies. It features the cute papers and embossed die-cuts from the Lavender & Fairies Collection (all from Paper Rose Studio). I’m working on some ideas for a local class that involves… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I recently purchased the very cute, Autumn Book from Mintay Papers and thought it would be fun to enter the latest challenge at the Card Concept. The theme is ‘Pumpkin Season’ and the pumpkins from the challenge graphic were the inspiration for my CLEAN and LAYERED card. It’s spring… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m having a mini break from Zig-Zag Albums ☺️ to enter a couple of challenges. The first one being, As You See It Challenge #334 – My favourite item to craft with is PRETTY PAPER, more specifically, 6×6 Paper Collections as they’re a good size for card making. My… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I have a cute box-card to share with you. It’s made from CTMH products which I bought at a recent Craft Alive Event in Hobart. The ‘Little Hedgehogs’ stamps and dies, along with a set of Thin Cuts ‘Buildable Tags’ were a ‘bargain’ purchase amongst the many tubs… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a card that I made for the Alphabet Challenge Blog. This round they are featuring the Letter ‘L’ … is for Landscape. https://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/09/l-is-for-landscape.html I absolutely love the Farmhouse Friends Backgrounds 6×6 Paper Collection from Paper Rose. They remind me of the countryside in the UK from… Read More
Hi there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a Double Z-Fold Box Card that I made for the latest challenge at the Paper Rose Community Group on Facebook. The theme for August is ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. I wanted to make another card using the absolutely gorgeous, Farmhouse Friends Backgrounds, 6×6 Paper… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing a card that I made especially for the #MintayFloweryCardChallenge. I recently joined the Mintay Papers Inspo Place on Facebook and was excited to discover that they hold Monthly Papercraft Challenges. #𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 My love of orchids and roses is what drew me to the Mintay Vacation 6×6… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to my blog. Today I have the awesome privilege of being a Guest Designer at Creative Creases – #88. I used the beautiful, Meandering Meadows 6×6 Designer Series Paper from Stampin’ Up! ® to make another Gatefold Box Card with a 3D Window – It features the Textured Floral Stamp Set and Dies… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’ve been on a bit of a roll with card making lately, having fun entering card challenges, using some long forgotten products from my stash and combining them with some newly acquired stamps and dies … and not running to ‘deadlines’ due to product ‘retirement’ … just enjoying the… Read More
Hi there! I’m Bronwyn Eastley from Australia. Welcome to the home of AddINKtive Designs; a place to share my love of paper crafting. Do you love to participate in card challenges? I sure do and I’ve discovered some new (to me) card challenge blogs and have combined some of the ideas as inspiration for my… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a Circle Easel Card; it’s been a really, really long time since I’ve done this type of card fold. I combined the themes and colour palette required from three different challenge sites to create my project. Firstly, I was Inspired By … the ‘Daisy’ theme at… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a 3D card that I made which combines some of my favourite, old and new products; the Window Box Thinlits from SU are certainly a blast from the past. I’ve tweaked my version of Jay Soriano’s Hexagonal Base Pop-Up Card once again to create this ‘box… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m entering the latest challenge at Just Add Ink – Challenge #690 which calls for a Fancy Fold Card … oh yeah! https://just-add-ink.blogspot.com/2024/02/just-add-ink-690fancy-folds.html 29th February – Thanks JAI for the Honourable Mention!! Today I had the house to myself so I decided to head to my craft room… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m joining in with Creative Creases #76 and Double Trouble Paper Crafting Challenge #160. I’ve made a Gatefold Double Box Card (my original design) featuring the Kangaroo & Company and Layering Leaves Stamp Sets (Stampin’ Up! ®) and Australiana Papers from Kaisercraft. Creative Creases is partnering with Double Trouble… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m sharing a ‘Belt and Buckle’ Card that I made for the Butterfly Challenge; I’ve been following the challenge for a while but it’s the first time I’ve played along. https://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/01/192-spin-butterfly-wheel-with-b-for.html There are a few different categories that need to be included in your project for the latest… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m sharing another version of my Pop-Up Vase Card and joining in with two of my favourite challenges … … Creative Creases and As You See It. The team at Creative Creases is up to Challenge #75 and as always the theme is Anything Goes with a Fun Fold.… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m sharing a card that I made for the December/January Paper Rose Challenge on Facebook. The theme was Anything Goes so I decided to make a Pop-Up Vase Card using a variety of Paper Rose Products that I had in my stash – Small Peonies Stamps and Dies, Happy Birthday Script… Read More
Hi there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. It’s been a while … life has been busy with holidays and spending time with family, preparing for an upcoming trip to the UK, sorting through cupboards at home in an effort to declutter and walking to help shed those unwanted kilos! I hadn’t felt like making cards,… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m sharing a Planter Box Card that I made for the latest Paper Rose Monthly Challenge – This month’s challenge is all about Die Cutting and I’ve used the Stitched Rectangle Frames and Sunflower Garden 6×6 Paper Collection to create this unique box card. It’s filled with sprigs… Read More
Hello and welcome to my blog. Today, after cleaning, sorting and decluttering some of the kitchen cupboards (for the second day in a row), I decided to take some time out to make a card and went looking for a challenge for inspiration. I loved the bright and cheery colour combo for Challenge #691 at… Read More